Example sentences of "to [pers pn] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fathers took pleasure and pride in their sons ' successes , but did not publicly defer to them on that account . |
| 2 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 3 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 4 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |
| 5 | let me make you one up to objections , I 'm not prepared to give you a decision tonight , what would you say to them on that ? |
| 6 | But the management did respond and er I think it was just because of the sheer pressure of the shop stewards er making continuous overtures to them on each and every problem that came up , and they were not going to be set aside er with a simple answer er that would n't satisfy a member . |
| 7 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 8 | They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales , and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions . |
| 9 | I was seconded to MI5 to report back to them on this one . |
| 10 | The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 . |
| 11 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 12 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 13 | In his whimsical way the British prime Minister observed , ‘ This argument naturally had some appeal to me on general grounds ’ : but he did not respond . |
| 14 | After that 's the spring term we 're into now , after Christmas erm health now there was there are packages and Catherine gave them to me on personal hygiene , things like that and I think Paul erm I know he would be keen he said , he 'd be keen to maybe put a package together with the help of all the form teachers plus myself and maybe do a bit into health , cos I mean you know it 's it 's |
| 15 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 16 | Just the same thing happened to me on one of my first jobs . |
| 17 | Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs . |
| 18 | ‘ Some are done on word processors and faxed through to me on company-headed newspaper . |
| 19 | Philip Mairet had written to me on 14 February 1937 saying that Eliot had ‘ promised ’ an article . |
| 20 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 21 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 22 | No , but if the hon. Gentleman has views that he would like to express to me on that closure , I should be delighted to hear from him . |
| 23 | Christians need to remember the words recorded of Jesus : " Not everyone who says to me on that day , Lord , Lord , shall enter the Kingdom but those who do the will of the Father " ( Matthew 7:21 ) . |
| 24 | So coming back to me on that . |
| 25 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 26 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 27 | This is the Government who have stopped pensioners getting an annual increase in line with Community living standards , a deliberate act of policy in 1980 , which cumulatively so far — according to a parliamentary answer to me on 25 November last — has removed from pensioners £31.8 billion of improved pensions which they would otherwise have had . |
| 28 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 29 | PAMELA : Why do you impute jealousy to me on this score ? |
| 30 | If you have any comments you would like to make to me on this exercise I shall be most grateful to receive them . |